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I've been working for 39 years and have anxieties about dying of boredom in retirement.
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They say people live longer if you don't "retire". Doesn't mean do the same thing, but find hobbies or a different type of work to give you something to wake up for. The mind, body, and spirit are really all connected.
Jeremy Falcon
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A therapist I was seeing for a while had the following advice on retirement: "Don't." He was a recovering alcoholic. When he retired, after a while he started thinking about drinking again. He went back to work part-time as and when he felt like it. His point was that you should stay physically, mentally, and especially socially active. If you don't want to work, volunteer. Go back to school and learn something. Go back to school and teach something. Find something meaningful outside your comfort zone.
Now, I kind of took Pat's advice with a grain of salt since he was demonstrably insane. We're both cyclists. During the winter he put his $5,000 carbon-fiber hyperbike on a trainer, and would do six hour rides indoors until spring. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing nuts.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Now, I kind of took Pat's advice with a grain of salt since he was demonstrably insane.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: During the winter he put his $5,000 carbon-fiber hyperbike on a trainer, and would do six hour rides indoors until spring. [mastadon] ing nuts
Well, given that most people who are retirement age wish they could ride.... maybe he's on to something. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Good luck. You will love it. Play with the grandchildren, they grow up too fast. Our youngest just finished college.
Busy? you will wonder how you ever found time to work.
I did the FIGMO on my hat many, many years ago. USAF
First retirement after 28 years as employee.
Second retirement after 6 years of traveling the country setting up networks at trade shows, contractor. Empty nest so wife went along.
Third retirement after 22 years of IT/Network consulting, programming.
Fourth retirement ? still doing some surveillance camera/system work, mostly remote.
We did take time for some cruises and such.
You need something to retire to, don't just retire from.
(sitting on the porch watching the grass grow sucks)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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well, I had the pleasure of arguing with my water department today (new post coming) and watching my 5 yo grandson. He and I have decided that he can come over this summer, and I'll teach him how to swim. So, there is project #1.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: I just need to sedate the geriatric golden that I know has less than 6 months to live  Hips are failing
I'm so sorry ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
Week before last I had my greyhound Bacchus put to sleep after he developed bone cancer. He was retired from a racing kennel in Florida and we think he'd been through a hurricane or a tropical storm, because he was terrified of bad weather. We found a CBD-infused treat that helped him a lot, and was a lot less harsh than the trazadone we tried first.
We've had a fair amount of thunderstorms the last couple of weeks. I think I need to give Big B a treat, and then I remember  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, life took a surprise turn on me. Daughter came home from Tennessee yesterday and announced that her golden is coming to live with them. One less thing to worry about. There is no doubt that the dog and her have a very special bond, so I'm hoping that with her being seen daily, he'll really improve.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: tornadoes a bit north of me, but....
... nice breeze blowing through the office
I guess as long as one is sure it is just a breeze.
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IP-API.com - Geolocation API[^] is a little web service to get a bunch of info about where you're at based on your IP (or an IP you give it)
I use it for my little internet clocks to fetch the timezone since they don't have GPS.
It can return values in CSV, JSON or other formats.
Arduino already has stream.readStringUntil(',') so parsing CSV seemed trivial. For quite awhile I was doing that.
On a lark, I decided to swap it out to use JSON and my little JSON pull parser for embedded.
The resulting code is actually a bit shorter than the CSV approach. And it doesn't take a lot of RAM because it's a pull parser (like XmlReader), and not a DOM
I'm leaving it in JSON
I love when stuff like that happens.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: Arduino already has stream.readStringUntil(',')
But no honoring of quotes and escapes?
modified 9-May-24 20:37pm.
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Of course it does.
I should amend that: The CSV technique did not. The JSON technique does. In this case it doesn't matter, because the data formats are all known ahead of time. It's not generalized.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 9-May-24 20:50pm.
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Quote: In this case it doesn't matter, because the data formats are all known ahead of time. It's not generalized
That is what I thought too. I had rolled my own JSON parser because the data was in a set format. Did not think I needed a whole big JSON library. Everything was humming along nicely until I was about 110,000 reads in, then the website threw in a different format and it all went boom. The fix was easy, but what a pain. I was glad I was the only one using the code.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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JSON is a bit different than CSV though. My JSON is compliant.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I rolled my own JSON reader -- converting JSON to XML as it goes, because SQL Server has an XML datatype and functions.
And every once in a while I would receive a corrupt JSON file (produced by a third-party product) and I would need to deal with it. In such cases I needed to report where the error occurred.
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